Jenny Han quotes - page 9

People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder. (Jenny Han)
Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always. Conrad at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, even seventeen years old. View quote
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I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep. View quote
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I knew that now-that love wasn't something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried. View quote
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I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. View quote
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Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue. View quote
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I wonder, though...what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back. View quote
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I sank onto the deck. My heart was pounding a million trillion times a minute. I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one. View quote
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She told me to try not to go to college with a boyfriend. She said she didn"t want me to be the girl crying on the phone with her boyfriend and saying no to things instead of yes. View quote
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She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same. View quote
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I want to be that person for him, I want to be the one who keeps him going during this difficult time. (Jenny Han)
She wanted letters. Real letters written in his handwriting on actual paper that she could hold and keep and read whenever the mood struck her. They were proof, solid and tangible, that someone was thinking about her. View quote
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Wanna hear something funny?” "What?” "I think I started liking you. View quote
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That's life. Things don't always work out. View quote
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He's being sarcastic. I hate when people are sarcastic. It's so cheap. View quote
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I've fallen for the one person I shouldn't have. For the boy who broke Mary's heart. For Rennie's one true love. For Alex's best friend. It has to end here. Now. View quote
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There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage. View quote
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I don't want to.. you know, fall for you any worse than I already have. View quote
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I don't want to forget any of this. The way he's looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight. View quote
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A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book. View quote
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The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there. (Jenny Han)
My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do. View quote
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Immigrant parents don't want their children to suffer or have to live harder than they did. View quote
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I don't outline anything in advance. That can be really scary. I liken it to walking blindfolded. I'm trying to head towards somewhere, but I have no idea how to get there. I don't write in order, either. I'm taking things as they come, following my fancy. View quote
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Well, I don't ever plan anything in my books. Since I don't outline, I tend to just go wherever my imagination leads me and where I feel excited to write about. I tend to write scenes that I would want to read. View quote
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